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Investigators discovered the gang's temporary headquarters at Leatherslade Farm, where fingerprints and other evidence helped identify several participants. Biggs was arrested, convicted and sentenced to thirty years in prison in 1964.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis imprisonment, however, lasted barely fifteen months.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\"I have always regretted the hurt I caused.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn 8 July 1965, Biggs escaped from London's Wandsworth Prison with assistance from accomplices waiting outside. A rope ladder was used to scale the prison wall, and a waiting vehicle carried him away. The escape became a sensation, transforming a convicted robber into one of Britain's most wanted fugitives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter leaving Britain, Biggs travelled through Europe before eventually reaching Australia, where he lived under an assumed identity. When the authorities began closing in, he moved again, arriving in Brazil in 1970. There, the complications of international extradition law and his family circumstances helped him remain beyond the reach of British police.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the middle of the decade, his whereabouts had become something of an open secret. British journalists visited him in Rio de Janeiro, while Scotland Yard detective Jack Slipper travelled to Brazil in an unsuccessful attempt to secure his return. Biggs increasingly embraced the publicity surrounding his fugitive existence, giving interviews and becoming an improbable fixture of the British tabloid press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis story took an even stranger turn in 1978 when he became involved with the Sex Pistols. 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Suffering from ill health and having exhausted much of his money, he was arrested upon arrival and returned to prison to continue serving his original sentence. A series of strokes subsequently left him severely incapacitated. He was released on compassionate grounds in August 2009 and died in December 2013 at the age of eighty-four.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe enduring fascination with Ronnie Biggs reveals something peculiar about British criminal folklore. Although he was neither the architect nor the principal beneficiary of the Great Train Robbery, his escape, exile and carefully cultivated public identity made him its most recognisable face. 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